http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/28/the-million-server-data-center/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:24:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/28/the-million-server-data-center/comment-page-1/#comment-3671 Jim Dorman Fri, 01 May 2009 03:39:34 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=9823#comment-3671 Seems to be a case of putting too many eggs in one basket. Granted, the center can be architected for high redundancy/availability/reliablility, but sooner or later some large scale catastrophy could affect the entire center, bringing down operations and potentially critical functions at once. Much better to create geographical distance between two (or more) smaller scale facilities or affect some form of redundancy and ability to continue operaitons (for critical processes) despite some large scale disaster--earthquake, high explosive, large scale power outage, etc.... Seems to be a case of putting too many eggs in one basket. Granted, the center can be architected for high redundancy/availability/reliablility, but sooner or later some large scale catastrophy could affect the entire center, bringing down operations and potentially critical functions at once. Much better to create geographical distance between two (or more) smaller scale facilities or affect some form of redundancy and ability to continue operaitons (for critical processes) despite some large scale disaster–earthquake, high explosive, large scale power outage, etc….

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